Toys and Communication 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781137591357, 9781137591364, 1137591358, 1137591366

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1137591366
• ISBN-13: 9781137591364
• Author: Luísa Magalhães, Jeffrey Goldstein

There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout history and in many cultures, including 1930’s Europe, Morocco, India, Spanish art of the 16th-19th centuries. Psychologists stress the importance of the role of toys and play in children’s language development and intellectual skills, and this book demonstrates the recurrent theme of the transmission of cultural norms through the portrayal, presentation and use of toys. The text establishes the role of toy and play park design in eliciting particular forms of play, as well as stressing the child’s use of toys to ‘become’ more adult. It will be beneficial for courses in education, developmental psychology, communications, media studies, and toy design.

Table contents:

I. Toys and Communication. Preliminary Issues

1. Toys and Communication: An Introduction

2. The End of Play and the Fate of Digital Play Media: A Historical Perspective on the Marketing of Play Culture

3. Toys: Between Rhetoric of Education and Rhetoric of Fun

4. A Toy Semiotics, Revisited

II. Language Development

5. Age Differences in the Use of Toys as Communication Tools

6. LMNOBeasts™: Using Typographically Inspired Toys to Aid Development of Language and Communication Skills in Early Childhood

III. Toys, Culture and Communication

7. Images of Toys in Spanish Art (15th–19th Centuries): Iconographic Languages

8. Communication in Moroccan Children’s Toys and Play

9. Dincs as Worldviews: Things that Communicate a Mind

10. Holocaust War Games: Playing with Genocide

11. Working Class Children’s Toys in Times of War and Famine. Play, Work and the Agency of Children in Piraeus Neighborhoods During the German Occupation of Greece

12. Can Toy Premiums Induce Healthy Eating?

13. You Are What You Eat: Toying with the Process of Becoming

IV. Toy Design and Play Spaces

14. Work and Play in a Theme Park

15. Design for Rebellious Play

16. Hong Kong PolyPlay: An Innovation Lab for Design, Play, and Education

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